Penn Manor is poised to introduce its new head varsity football coach

Slowly but surely, the Lancaster-Lebanon League football coaching vacancies are being filled.

There could be another new skipper in the league as early as Monday night.

According to the meeting agenda, Penn Manor’s school board will vote to approve Jordan Clark as the Comets’ football coach.

Should he gain approval, the Towanda native and longtime assistant coach would succeed John Brubaker, who stepped down after 10 years on Penn Manor’s sideline at the end of last season.

Brubaker, who spent the first 27 years of his career as Manheim Central’s defensive coordinator, guided the Comets to a 27-70 record in his 10 seasons in Millersville.

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Clark played football and baseball, and he was an all-region center on the gridiron, at Towanda in District 4. Towanda is northwest of Scranton, in Bradford County.

He went on to play Sprint Football — for players weighing less than 172 pounds — at Mansfield University, where he was a three-time all-star selection, including a first-team nod in his junior year in 2011.

Clark earned a bachelor’s in elementary education, and he went on to earn a master’s from Slippery Rock University.

He’s had several coaching stops along his journey to Penn Manor. Clark was an offensive and defensive line coach at Towanda for four years; he was an offensive line coach and the co-offensive coordinator at Sayre, also in District 4; he guided Wyalusing to a District 4 championship as a head coach in 2017; and he was an offensive line coach back at Mansfield University.

Clark has spent the last three seasons serving on coach Mark Evans’ staff at Manheim Township as the Blue Streaks’ special teams coordinator. He’s employed in the Township school district.

Already this offseason, there have been new coaching hires at Hamburg (Tyler Hartranft), McCaskey (Todd Mealy) and Elizabethtown (Tom Gallagher).

Should Clark gain school approval, Columbia would be the last L-L League football program in search of a coach heading into the 2025 season.